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Something turned up in the mail this week, which we’ve not seen for several years here. Several years ago, many people turned over postcards to me which they received through the U.S. mail. These postcards notified their recipients that they won a $100 gift card for use at Target or Walmart.

When Nixon “Nick” Denton died in January 1878, his friends in Manchester, Iowa, reminded people of a story Nick liked to tell about an encounter he had with a man who became president of the United States.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of ships since European explorers began navigating the waters in the 1600s, but few have captured the public’s imagination as has the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II led commemorations Monday to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta — but the human rights the document helped enshrine are at the center of a modern political feud.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The autobiography of prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder, a blockbuster for the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, is expected to jump to about 145,000 copies in print by mid-summer.

CLINTON — History aficionados from around the region are invited to a unique expo Saturday as the Clinton Public Library, Sawmill Museum and other organizations host the first Gateway History conference.

EDITOR'S NOTE: On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and even from the blood-stained box at Ford's Theatre, where, in his memoir he reports he was …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt to be treated less than equal and once feistily wrote of how tired she was of being “pushed around” — parts of her history long hidden away.

Not long ago, I wrote an article about Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” and started the Reformation. It is located on the Elbe River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt about midway between Berlin and Leipzig.It seems

In the early part of our country’s history, the east coast was settled by British, Dutch and other immigrants. By the mid-19th Century, it was the Irish, Scandinavians and Germans’ turn to come in large numbers. Europe was crowded, its forests depleted, fishing had become sparse, and land wa…

These are tough times for many, but our ancestors from across the seas had even harsher winters than did our parents from the Great Depression. Wars and economic blight, unimaginable in our lifetimes, brought those relatives in droves to America’s shores.
We can’t possibly fathom what it wa…

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